"Serious Games, Serious Learning" By Jim Lunsford - Serious Play Conference 2012
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"Serious Games, Serious Learning" By Jim Lunsford - Serious Play Conference 2012
- 1. ® Jim Lunsford President Decisive-Point 816-584-2882 (Direct) 816-584-2883 (FAX) jim@decisive-point.com www.decisive-point.com © 2012 Decisive-Point, All rights reserved.
- 2. About Decisive-Point • Experts in the design, development, and use of serious games • One of the early pioneers in the industry; first game in 1990 (PC-based Tank Identification Game) • Broad experience in developing serious game solutions • Focus primarily on leadership and team development games • Developed several games for research purposes • In the last twelve years, the U.S Army alone has bought nine different games from us. We have also sold games to several of our allies. • Conduct organizational leadership and team training using a game about the Lewis and Clark Expedition • It’s a passion as well as a profession! © 2008 Decisive-Point, All rights reserved.
- 3. Why Use Serious Games? A “good” serious game can help facilitate quality experiential learning to overcome the following instructional challenges: • Theory and abstract ideas are difficult to learn and assess using traditional teaching methods. Yet, much of what we learn as we advance in school is theory and abstract ideas. • The human mind is limited in its ability to visualize dynamic events or solve problems involving more than a few number of variables • Inability of students to link cause and effect • Lack of adequate opportunity to practice key cognitive skills across a wide range of situations • The inability to teach many topics above the “Understand” and “Remember” levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy with acceptable results. © 2012 Decisive-Point, All rights reserved.
- 4. The Future of Serious Games • Serious games will become ubiquitous and use will not always be positive • Use will EXPLODE, DROP because of… • Poor design • Organizational resistance • Improper implementation • Unrealistic expectations • Teacher resistance • Cost limitations • Sub-standard instruction • Misguided goals and RISE AGAIN… we hope! • “Adaptive Teachers” will become the new requirement • Security requirements restricting game use will become more prevalent • Games integrated with LMS and supported by ITS will become much more prevalent. • Experiential learning conducted as homework, results discussed in class • Content creation by users will be the norm © 2012 Decisive-Point, All rights reserved.